What can Twitter really do?A Twitter campaign aimed at raising awareness of the April 2014 Chibok, Nigeria, kidnapping - which was perpetrated by west African terrorist group Boko Haram (“Non-Muslim Teaching is Forbidden”) -...

Satire does news better than news programs do newsEvery now and then, I use this column to bring you recaps of late-night news (or “news”) television programs like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. I do this for at least two reasons. 1. These...

Speech is speech, full stopWho here likes a good joke? This one comes from the U.S. Supreme Court! “Spending large sums of money in connection with elections, but not in connection with an effort to control the exercise of a...

How do you solve a problem like Crimea?The title is inspired by the title to the song “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” from “The Sound of Music.” As is almost always the case, we live in interesting and uncertain times. Under Pr...

A week full of changesNot too long ago, I was complaining – not audibly, just in my own head – about feeling like I was stuck in a rut. Week after week seemed to pass by with little to no change in my routine. Too late ...